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From: Scott Frazer <frazer.scott@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Dynamic named directories and completion
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 09:31:31 -0500
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On 2/24/18 3:12 PM, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 20:49:14 +0100
> Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have some patches I was working on related to this, but I assume
>> there was still some problem, or I would have committed them...
>> There's two patches in this thread,
>> http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2015/msg01439.html and then I think I
>> never sent the third one,
> 
> This is all quite complicated so I can well believe it's useful; I don't
> think it fixes the behaviour I was seeing (but I may be getting
> confused).
> 
> On the same theme, I think the following is useful for those of us
> using the _expand completer, which may well have nothing whatsoever to
> do with the original problem.
> 
> pws
> 
> diff --git a/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand b/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand
> index a6e30e8..ee3681b 100644
> --- a/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand
> +++ b/Completion/Base/Completer/_expand
> @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ zstyle -s ":completion:${curcontext}:" accept-exact tmp ||
>   
>   if [[ "$tmp" != (yes|true|on|1) ]]; then
>     { [[ "$word" = \~(|[-+]) ||
> -       ( "$word" = \~[-+][1-9]## && $word[3,-1] -le $#dirstack ) ]] && return 1 }
> +	   ( "$word" = \~[-+][1-9]## && $word[3,-1] -le $#dirstack ) ||
> +     $word = \~\[*\]/* ]] && return 1 }
>     { [[ ( "$word" = \~* && ${#userdirs[(I)${word[2,-1]}*]}+${#nameddirs[(I)${word[2,-1]}*]} -gt 1 ) ||
>          ( "$word" = *\$[a-zA-Z0-9_]## &&
>            ${#parameters[(I)${word##*\$}*]} -ne 1 ) ]] && continue=1 }
> 

Just this patch does not fix the completion issue (I even upgraded to 5.4.2
just to be sure).  Since M-x complete-word does work, I may try looking at
expand-or-complete to see if I can figure out what is happening.  I'm no
zsh expert though, so I will likely need help not breaking something else.